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Re: Museum Buildings Themselves

Ray Stata is Chairman of the Board of my old company, Analog Devices (and a really nice guy who still remembers me, 25 years after I left the company).

Unfortunately, the building leaks like a sieve.

EDITED TO ADD: Also designed by Frank Ghery.

"Reason and facts are sacrificed to opinion and myth. Demonstrable falsehoods are circulated and recycled as fact. Narrow minded opinion refuses to be subjected to thought and analysis. Too many now subject events to a prefabricated set of interpretations, usually provided by a biased media source. The myth is more comfortable than the often difficult search for truth."

Re: Museum Buildings Themselves

Originally Posted by Paul Pless

post some up that you admire, or that make you think, or that make you pause, or that make you want to see what's inside

It's far easier to post photos of buildings that are abominations to architecture... and first prize, I think, goes to Boston City Hall. It has been an abortion since the day it was built... and completely out of character for a city like Boston:

"Reason and facts are sacrificed to opinion and myth. Demonstrable falsehoods are circulated and recycled as fact. Narrow minded opinion refuses to be subjected to thought and analysis. Too many now subject events to a prefabricated set of interpretations, usually provided by a biased media source. The myth is more comfortable than the often difficult search for truth."

Re: Museum Buildings Themselves

and my 2nd-favorite building in New Haven; the Beinecke Rare Book Library (yes a library, but with a mission of collecting, preserving, and displaying rare objects in glorious fashion, I count it as a museum)

That exterior marble is thin enough to be translucent. The quality of light inside on a sunny day is positively ethereal.

It's a box within a box, the stacks are in a very-climate-controlled (and access-controlled of course) glass box within the marble box.

Re: Museum Buildings Themselves

When I took the State Board exams for architecture, oh so many years ago, the tests were five days (without lunch breaks) for five different parts. The last day was the design test, and it was 12 hours. The tests were only given once a year, and you could keep the parts you passed, but had to wait a year to retake the parts you missed. The first year I passed all but the 12 hour design, which that year was a post office. The next year the design test project was a museum and I passed it. So I have a soft spot for museum design to this day.

Re: Museum Buildings Themselves

I am sure that the sharp-eyed enthusiasts amongst us will have noticed that the building Jimmy W posted and the Museum of History that I posted are both by the same architect, Douglas Cardinal, whom is Métis (Blackfoot/Kainai, German and Algonquin heritage), born in Calgary.